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Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Benny2707 on Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:27 pm

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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby sirhc55 on Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:39 pm

Straighten the horizon and you will have a scene showing the best kind of beach in the world - pebbles :wink: :lol:
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Benny2707 on Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:56 pm

I guess that's an experienced eye for you. I didn't even realise that the horizon was sloping to the left. Now it looks really bad. Will have to get out my Photoshop help manual and work out how to amend it. Thanks for your feedback.
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby surenj on Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:55 pm

Like it!
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Oz_Beachside on Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:32 am

Benny2707 wrote:I guess that's an experienced eye for you. I didn't even realise that the horizon was sloping to the left. Now it looks really bad. Will have to get out my Photoshop help manual and work out how to amend it. Thanks for your feedback.



Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary > > (try 3 degrees CW)

nice shot, reminds me of when I lived at the Hilton Metropole, Brighton Beach. Is that Brighton Pier?
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Reschsmooth on Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:01 am

Benny2707 wrote:I guess that's an experienced eye for you. I didn't even realise that the horizon was sloping to the left. Now it looks really bad. Will have to get out my Photoshop help manual and work out how to amend it. Thanks for your feedback.


I think if you press "i" three times, you will go from eye dropper to sampler to a ruler type device. If you then draw a line across the horizon (making sure it matches the current slope of the horizon as accurately as you can), and then do as Wayne suggested: Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary , it will tell you exactly how much to rotate. Just click OK, and the horizon will be straight, with only a crop required.

Nice shot, by the way.
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Mr Darcy on Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:41 pm

You can also do this with the crop tool (CS2). Cover the whole pic with the crop rectangle, then before you press "Enter" to accept the crop selection, drag outside one of the corners. When you are in the right spot, the cursor will change to a double ended curved arrow. The Crop will rotate. WHen you press enter the image will rotate and crop all in one go.
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Oneputt on Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:16 pm

No one thought to mention the perspective tool? :lol: That's photoshop for you a zillion ways to do the same thing. :wink:
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Catcha on Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:20 pm

very simple great perspective I like it :D
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Geoff on Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:35 pm

sirhc55 wrote:showing the best kind of beach in the world - pebbles :wink: :lol:


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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Benny2707 on Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:47 am

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm going to be doing a lot of shooting on the weekend and practicing my PP so will let you all know how I go.

Will have some fresh images in my Flickr on Monday!

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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Oz_Beachside on Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:50 am

Reschsmooth wrote:
Benny2707 wrote:I guess that's an experienced eye for you. I didn't even realise that the horizon was sloping to the left. Now it looks really bad. Will have to get out my Photoshop help manual and work out how to amend it. Thanks for your feedback.


I think if you press "i" three times, you will go from eye dropper to sampler to a ruler type device. If you then draw a line across the horizon (making sure it matches the current slope of the horizon as accurately as you can), and then do as Wayne suggested: Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary , it will tell you exactly how much to rotate. Just click OK, and the horizon will be straight, with only a crop required.

Nice shot, by the way.


oh thats where that ruler thingo is, MattK demonstrated it in our Melbourne PS workshop last year, but I couldnt remember the measuring tool thing that gets the degrees automatically. thanks for that!
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby Pehpsi on Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:23 pm

Love the perspective you've chosen here.
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Re: Deck Chairs all the way from the UK

Postby blacknstormy on Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:55 pm

Very cool Benny - I use the crop tool too - select the box just on the horizon, use the corners to rotate, and when the box is straight on the horizon, I drag the corners out to get the rest of the photo and hit the accept tick ... mmmm... just read that back, and have no idea if it makes sense :? :) LOL

edit - Benny (pm sent), I've used your photo to illustrate what I meant (seeing what I wrote made no sense what so ever !!) = I'll change the photos to something else if you like - but at least the pictures make more sense than my words. There are a heap of ways that different people do the same thing in PS, but this is just my version .....
This is the link to the straighten horizon blurb ...
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